#syrian women

[femsy]

Sham Al-Assad 🐎

[nanshe-of-nina]

Women’s History Meme || Women from Ancient History (or legends) (3/5) ↬ Septima Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra (c. 240 – c. 274)

Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, and self-proclaimed Empress, is one of the heroines of the ancient world who has inspired successive generations of scholars, writers, librettists and musicians, playwrights and actors. In the modern western world she is slightly less well known than Cleopatra; in the east she is still supreme, as demonstrated by the massive response throughout the Arab world to the television series called Anarchy (Al-Abadid) broadcast in Syria in 1997. The role of the Empress Zenobia was played by a very famous and beautiful Arab actress, Raghda, and her struggle against the Romans was depicted in twenty-two episodes watched by millions of people. For political reasons, but by controversial calculations, Zenobia claimed descent from Cleopatra, who was neither Arab nor Egyptian, but a Macedonian Greek. The writers of the television series emphasized Zenobia’s iconic Arab origins, but in fact, as a Palmyrene, Zenobia combined elements of Aramaic and Arabic ancestry. The population of Palmyra was descended from an amalgamation of various tribes of different ethnic backgrounds, and their language was a dialect of Aramaic. As the heroic and ultimately tragic Queen of Palmyra, Zenobia ranks with two other heroines of ancient history: the British Queen Boudicca and Cleopatra, who stood firm for their principles and their people, defied their oppressors, and were ultimately defeated. In each case the tragedy is all the more poignant because all three queens were the last of their lines, and after their deaths, each of their kingdoms disappeared, absorbed by Rome. These heroic women passed into legend as a result of their individual struggles and tragic fates, and the simple fact that they were women, who ruled as capably, and fought just as fiercely, as kings. Their enduring fame far outstrips the quantity and quality of the information about them. — Empress Zenobia: Palmyra’s Rebel Queen by Pat Southern

[soracities]

[My grandmother] had been married at fifteen, had borne seven children before she was twenty-four. With her hands she had sorted a lifetime of rice and lentils, had gutted fish and deboned chicken. She knew how to upholster furniture and help grapevine spread and climb, how to cover bruises and scars so no one could see them, how to measure the value of her life and still rise.

Dima Alzayat, from "Daughters of Manāt", Alligator & Other Stories

[artfilmfan]

The Green Border (Agnieszka Holland, 2023)

[majestativa]

When my self aligns within the shade of Your moon, I become the passage of Your Meaning and Manifestations.

— Suha al-Abed, Women of Sufism: A Hidden Treasure, transl by Nuha al-Abed, (2003)

[yiddishlore]

Woodcut illustration of a Jewish woman from Syria.

From De gli habiti antichi, et moderni di diuerse parti del mondo (1590) by Cesare Vecellio.

[theupfish]

Yazidi woman held by IS for 10 years freed by Kurdish fighters in Syria | Islamic State | The Guardian

Most Kurds are also Muslim, for the record.

[mithliya]

Hey did you see the post on ovarit about middle east men beating up a lesbian couple in Canada? Is the news true? How do you find out if it's true or not? The comments on there are something else...

The article:

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/middle-eastern-men-beat-lesbian-celebrating-birthday-canada/

The ovarit post:

https://ovarit.com/o/WomensLiberation/573777/mob-of-middle-eastern-men-brutally-beat-lesbian-couple-out-celebrating-a-birthda

yeah the story is true, tho that source i find quite iffy bc i know hate crimes by white men wouldn't start with the headline "white men beat lesbian" for example, it would just say "gang of men" instead bc race isn't considered note-worthy if its a white person

i hope they receive justice. theres some absolutely deranged men out there who don't know how to act normally and get violent when theyre barely provoked

also the fact that in no part of any of the articles was these men's religion mentioned, yet ppl in the comments in ovarit made it about muslims and how dangerous muslims r... this is why i keep saying that ppl just use muslim as a way to disguise their racism. even tho clearly, on ovarit, theres no need to disguise any of it and u can openly talk about how wrong it is to support refugees escaping their countries

[underthewingsofthblackeagle]

[femsy]

Karate🥋

[abwwia]

Etel Adnan (Syrian-American poet, essayist and visual artist, 1925 - 2021)

(Arabic: إيتيل عدنان‎) Untitled, ca. 1960

oil on canvas, 61 x 45.7 cm. (24 x 18 in.)

signed in Arabic (lower left)

private collection © photo Christie's

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

All women speak two languages:

the language of men and the language of silent suffering.

Some women speak a third,

the language of queens.

所有女性都會說兩種語言：

人類說的話和用沉默煎熬表述的話。

有些女人則說第三種，

女王的話。 😆🤭

─ Mohja Kahf, The Marvelous Women

(b. 1967 她是敘利亞裔美國詩人，小說家和教授。She's a Syrian-American poet, novelist, and professor. )

LOL

'Queen Of the Night' by Marjorie Miller published in The Tatler, 1931, p. 27 © Illustrated London News/Mary Evans Picture Library.

📌 Marjorie Miller, or Marjorie Janet Miller (1897, Woodford Green, London — 1936). She was a British artist known for art nouveau drawings of women. Her most popular drawings are “Spring's Promise” (1930) and “Queen of the Night” (1931). She also illustrated children's books.

[soracities]

When the coffee boils, we will pour it and drink at once so it scalds our tongues. Our knuckles will ache and we will rub them in apology. We will remember how our fingers clutched at playground bars and how we were strong enough to catapult our bodies through the air, to land on tanbark whose splinters were incidental to the miracle of flight.

Dima Alzayat, from "Daughters of Manāt", Alligator & Other Stories

[valkyries-things]

ASIA RAMAZAN ANTAR // SOLDIER

“She led an all-female battalion against ISIS in Syria called the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) and became a symbol of the feminist struggle in the Rojava conflict and in the fight against ISIS, by international media. On August 30, 2016, three ISIS suicide bombers drove cars filled with explosives towards the Kurdish front lines. Antar and other YPJ fighters destroyed two of these cars but the third detonated close to Antar, killing her.”

[majestativa]

The more I observe self-denial, the more comfortable I become with its practice. Thus, when I get tired from human encounter, I find intimacy in the remembrance of God.

— Lubaba al-Muta'Abbida, Women of Sufism: A Hidden Treasure, (2003)

[postcard-from-the-past]

Syrian women on the 1900 Paris World Exhibition

French vintage postcard